Box for a locally made toy gun that fires plastic bullets. The gun features the
Korean Army slogan ‘Il Tang Paek’ meaning ‘one is the match for one
hundred (enemies)’. The hedgehog is a popular cartoon character
(representing the Korean hero) fighting the wolf and the weasel (representing
the enemy – the Americans). Picture credit: Collection Nicholas Bonner

Comic book story ‘Underwater Struggle’. In this scene, the commandos are
behind enemy lines and have arrived just in time to save a young Korean girl
from being attacked by US soldiers. Violation of Korea and its people, both
literally and metaphorically, by outside forces, is a common trope in the
North Korean media. Picture credit: Collection Nicholas Bonner

Made in North Korea: Graphics From Everyday Life in the DPRK, Nicholas
Bonner, Phaidon, open at pages 16-17, showing tinned food labels, from the
Introduction

Made in North Korea: Graphics From Everyday Life in the DPRK, Nicholas
Bonner, Phaidon, open at pages 170-171, showing invitations and museum
tickets, from ‘Foreign Language is a Weapon for the Life and Struggle’
chapter